Collaborate Disseminate
The education sector has always been a relatively easy target for cybercriminals. One group in particular — Pysa — earned a reputation for its ransomware attacks on schools. Despite analyses and alerts in March, 2021 by threat intel firms… Continue reading Pysa shuttered its leak site before it ever dumped data from more than half a dozen schools. Here’s what we know so far.
Accounting firm Perkins & Co. in Portland Oregon has submitted a notification to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office about a breach that goes back to 2020 — the Netgain ransomware incident that impacted numerous clients and individual… Continue reading Are victims of Netgain ransomware incident first being notified now?
A recent notification by Aon had DataBreaches wondering exactly what went on with their incident response. Consider their description of what happened: What Happened? On February 25, 2022, Aon identified a cyber incident that, upon investigation, impac… Continue reading Today’s exercising in reading between the lines
Rachel Maher reports: Police have alerted the Privacy Commissioner after a burglar broke into the former Auckland police station and stole documents and expired pepper spray. The police were made aware of the break-in while carrying out a search warran… Continue reading Potential privacy breach after documents stolen from abandoned Auckland police station
Martin University in Indianapolis disclosed that they were hit by a ransomware attack on January 3, 2022, and have been investigating the incident since then. As is often the case with these attacks, the university was unable to determine whether there… Continue reading Martin University discloses ransomware incident
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has reported yet another data security incident — what appears to be the fourth one in five years. Washington University School of Medicine is notifying an as-yet revealed number of patients… Continue reading MO: Washington University School of Medicine notifying patients and research participants of data security incident
This is not be the first time the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has apparently had a data security incident, and it certainly not the largest breach the state has ever experienced, but it appears that TxDOT’s portal for the certified… Continue reading Another Texas state agency data breach — this time, it’s the Department of Transportation
Dani-Elle Dubé reports: Arnprior Regional Health says it has been the target of a cyber attack that has breached data dating back to decades ago. The hospital network confirmed the news via an announcement on its website on Thursday, May 19, adding tha… Continue reading Ca: Big data breach confirmed at Arnprior Regional Health
Attacks on small to medium-sized medical entities continue, as this week’s breach posts unfortunately attest. Today, Vice Society added Atlanta Perinatal Associates in Georgia to its leak site. As they have done in the past, Vice Society did not … Continue reading Vice Society claims to have acquired patient files from Atlanta Perinatal Associates
As reported by TopClassActions, Solara Medical Supplies has agreed to a $9.76 million class action settlement benefiting those whose personal information may have been compromised during a 2019 data breach that occurred between April 2 and June 20, 201… Continue reading Settlement in Solara Medical Supplies litigation gets preliminary approval